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Thanks to an £80,000 grant from John Lyon’s Charity over two years, and additional funding and venue support from Harrow School, 2,000 young people in Harrow have had the opportunity to participate in a range of exciting performing arts initiatives across the borough.

Families in Harrow can now sign their children up for an exciting range of free holiday activities and nutritious meals this Easter, thanks to the Holiday Activities & Food (HAF) programme. Funded by the Department for Education (DfE) and coordinated by Harrow Council and Young Harrow Foundation.

"This is Harrow" is a comprehensive report combining research, local professional insights, and youth interviews to portray growing up in Harrow. It informs service design, funding requests, and strategic planning for youth services in the borough.

Thousands of free places are available for children and young people aged 5-16, at local clubs and activities this Easter holiday, thanks to the Holiday Activities & Food (HAF) Programme. Each space also includes a free nutritious meal, per day.

The How Are You (HAY) Harrow survey report represents a comprehensive investigation of the health and well-being of young people studying and living in Harrow in 2021.

A new report, This is Harrow, by Young Harrow Foundation has found that money and safety are some of the top concerns for children and young people in Harrow.

Welcome to the Young Harrow Foundation Newsletter - where we will share the latest opportunities for our members and associate members.

Come on the 24th of October to the Harrow Funding fair, organised by Young Harrow Foundation and Voluntary Action Harrow. It's held at Harrow College from 10 am to 2 pm.

Young Harrow is seeking a Treasurer to join our dynamic board. Working closely with the Trustee Board and CEO to oversee the finances of the organisation, including the Finance, Remuneration and Business continuity Sub-groups.

Welcome to the Young Harrow Foundation Newsletter - where we will share the latest opportunities for our members and associate members.

Come on our journey as we celebrated a momentous milestone at Shaftesbury School, where the doors are opening to a brand new coffee shop run entirely by their talented sixth form students.

Welcome to the Young Harrow Foundation Newsletter - where we will share the latest opportunities for our members and associate members.

A new report highlighting the impact and the reach of the Holiday Activity & Food (HAF) programme in 2022 has been published by The Young Harrow Foundation.

In 2015, Young Harrow Foundation (YHF) introduced a new place-based model of support for the children and young people voluntary sector in Harrow. Seven years later, the charity has over 280 organisations locally in its network, and is helping the charity sector to thrive.

A partnership between Young Harrow Foundation, DVS Foundation, Harrow School and Harrow Council, has seen over £32,000 given out in retail vouchers to families across Harrow.

Over 1,000 free places are available for children and young people aged 5-16, at local clubs and activities this Easter holiday. Each space also includes a free nutritious meal, per day. To be eligible for the programme, families must be living or studying in Harrow and in receipt of (means-tested) free school meals.

A new website, directing people to local support and organisations that can help during the cost of living crisis, has been launched for Harrow.

Over 2,000 free places are available for children and young people at local holiday clubs and activities in Harrow, this Winter holiday. Each space also includes a free nutritious meal per day.

Harrow’s first Children & Young People Support Conference brought together over 150 professionals in the borough, from schools, charities and local authorities, to benefit young people.

Children and young people in Harrow can now access a wide range of free mental health and emotional support programmes thanks to a new partnership.

This Thursday - 15th of September - Jam Sandwich will be lighting up the stage in support of Mental Health for young people in Harrow. Their performance promises to be jam-full of rock and dance covers, with all the proceeds going to Young Harrow Foundation and the Charlie Waller Trust UK.

For this Summer’s HAF 2022 programme, Harrow have used the funding in an innovative new way to create a hospitality training scheme for local adults to take the first steps in finding a new career.

The Holiday Activities and Food (HAF) programme is back for the summer, this time with more activities, spaces and opportunities than ever before!

Young Harrow Foundation in conjunction with Harrow Council are working with Unique Community Charity to offer access to this Webinar: Russia-Ukraine War: The Effect the Conflict is having on Children & Young People from our Communities If you are a teacher, youth or community worker and are looking for ways to support children and young people living in Harrow from both communities who are trying to decipher and deal with the effects of the ongoing conflict of war then watch this webinar for support.

● Young people can now find and access free and local mental health services via a new website youngharrowfoundation.org/harrow-is-here ● Children’s Mental Health Week 2022 is happening around the UK on the 7th-13th of February ● Nearly two-thirds (65%) of 9-18 year olds in Harrow “sometimes” or “often” feel depressed or anxious according to a survey of 6,000 local young people

We are thrilled to announce that Change Champion Samy Benaferi has been appointed a trustee of the Young Harrow Foundation, the first young person to join the board!

Youth funding and capacity building charity Impetus has partnered with Bank of America to launch a new training programme for aspiring leaders from ethnic minority backgrounds working in the UK youth sector.

Dr Tabetha Newman, Harrow Council, Young Harrow Foundation and Harrow's School Nursing Service present the key findings from HAY Harrow survey of young people.

YPF Trust asked a group of independent consultants from the INTEN partnership, to look at the work of the Foundations both before and during COVID-19, and also to consider what the future might hold for their model of working with children and young people.